Turner has endured a horror run with injury over the past two years. Source: AP
FORMER Wallabies finisher Lachie Turner is on the brink of signing a deal to play with the Reds in 2014 in a shrewd move that will bolster the club's depleted wing stocks.
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A broken leg in April ruined this season for Turner, 26, who is eager to continue his 71-game Super Rugby career which has stalled with NSW Waratahs.
His experience as a winger of 15 Tests would be a valuable salve for the loss of Digby Ioane (Stade Francais) and Luke Morahan (Western Force).
Turner has his own injury to fully overcome but he does offer insurance with Dom Shipperley (shoulder) and Rod Davies (knee) at the start of long recoveries from surgery.
The Reds have announced 28 of the 30 names who will be on their 2014 playing roster but it is the hunt for a missing link like Turner which is the head-turner.
University's sharp-stepping Jamie-Jerry Taulagi, 20 and still qualified to play for Samoa, has been signed as a foreign development player. His exciting attacking ways will be measured against GPS in Saturday's Premier Rugby preliminary final at Ballymore.
Backrower Jarrad Butler, who played 11 times for the Reds this season, has switched to the Brumbies.
New coach Richard Graham has locked up the core group who have taken the Reds to the Super Rugby finals for the past three seasons.
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He has also shown huge faith in inking new deals for lock Dave McDuling, who didn't play a game for the Reds in 2012-13 because of two knee surgeries, and injury-prone back Aidan Toua.
Toua has played just five times for the Reds over the past three seasons. He could easily have been let go but, at 23, Toua's best can still be ahead.
Forwards Albert Anae, James Hanson and Beau Robinson are locked in to the end of 2015, prop Ben Daley will be a Red until the end of 2016 and boom youngster Chris Feauai-Sautia has re-signed for 2014.
While exciting young backrower Curtis Browning will have a bigger role in 2014, the Reds forward ranks look short on dynamism and line-busting power overall.
"We have retained the core group of players who have delivered Queensland rugby success over the past three seasons. We have worked hard on establishing a culture that the players want to be a part of," Graham said.
Reds 2014 squad: Backs: W Genia, N Frisby, Q Cooper, B Lucas, A Faingaa, M Harris, B Tapuai, C Feauai-Sautia, R Davies, D Shipperley, J-J Taulagi, A Toua. Forwards: S Faingaa, J Hanson, A Anae, B Daley, G Holmes, J Slipper, J Owen, J Horwill, R Simmons, E O'Donoghue, E Quirk, D McDuling, L Gill, B Robinson, J Schatz, C Browning, 2 to be named.
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